Untitled (2024).

        This Independent Study project was redirected in response to police and state violence perpetrated by UCLA Administration towards its students, the United States towards activists advocating for Palestine’s liberation, and the state of Israel towards Palestinian people. Due to the lack of support and activism shown by the UCLA Architecture and Urban Design department, the students of AUD, like me, felt annihilated and silenced.

This project, led by Anel Alpysbayeva and Dyson Salleh, is an effort to continuously remind AUD community and beyond that Palestinian resilience is ever present even when business is expected to be ran as usual.




The visual symbols of keffiyeh scarf are meant to be obscure enough to pass the department’s unspoken rules of censorship, but clear enough to be linked to Palestinian liberation as many Palestinians and student activists have been wearing keffiyeh to symbolize their resistance to Israeli apartheid.


The active action of walking through the wall with a chiffon fabric, draping all the way down to the floor, helps the participants to notice the entrance to Perloff Hall and be reminded of what’s been going on in this campus: how police officers were freely walking through the same entrance to get around campus to brutalize students.